Project Gutenberg 2025-05-13 Public domain in the USA. 245 Fothergill, Jessie 1851 1891 Probation : $b a novel $aLondon :$bRichard Bentley & Son, $c1887. Carla Foust, Peter Becker and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) "Probation" by Jessie Fothergill is a novel written in the late 19th century. Set in industrial Lancashire on the eve of the cotton famine, it explores duty, class, and conscience through the principled mill overlooker Myles Heywood and the cultured, half-foreign Adrienne Blisset, with an absentee owner, Sebastian Mallory, and a vulgar heir, Frederick Spenceley, sharpening conflicts. Expect factory life rendered from the loom-floor up, social critique of wealth and responsibility, and a developing cross-class attraction tempered by pride and politics. The opening of Probation plunges into a Thanshope weaving shed, introducing Myles—a skilled, proud overlooker—amid the deafening machines and Friday pay. Shop-floor talk skewers the absent mill owner as American war threatens cotton supply. Home reveals Myles’s household: sturdy sister Mary, sensitive invalid brother Edmund, and a querulous mother. Wandering to the town-hall library, Myles notices the Oakenrod (Mallory’s house) and intervenes when Frederick Spenceley pesters a young woman reader. She is Adrienne Blisset, who is gathering musical references for her infirm uncle’s ambitious book on Art and Civilisation; Myles escorts her to their lonely house, Stonegate, on Mallory land. A visit follows: Mr. Blisset’s paralysis, austere intellect, and Adrienne’s diligent service emerge, while Myles’s fascination—and the novel’s social and moral stakes—quietly take root. (This is an automatically generated summary.) https://archive.org/details/probationnovel00fothrich 20201028133703fothergill 1887 gb Reading ease score: 79.7 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. en English fiction -- 19th century Lancashire (England) -- Fiction Cotton famine, 1861-1864 -- Fiction PR Text Category: Historical Novels Category: Novels Category: British Literature 947997 2025-07-30T06:36:39.302896 text/html 923046 2025-05-13T10:36:18 text/html 897582 2025-07-30T06:36:53.369759 application/epub+zip 927358 2025-07-30T06:36:41.744850 application/epub+zip 527186 2025-07-30T06:36:40.416822 application/epub+zip 1147700 2025-07-30T06:37:01.438786 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1081905 2025-07-30T06:36:52.272829 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 871706 2025-07-30T06:36:37.410889 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 851850 2025-05-13T10:36:18 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 14307 2025-07-30T06:37:01.843740 application/rdf+xml 9773 2025-07-30T06:36:40.797855 image/jpeg 1922 2025-07-30T06:36:40.680808 image/jpeg 812144 2025-07-30T06:36:39.389904 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia